The Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) Study: Protocol and Study Methods.
Methods Inf Med
; 59(4-05): 119-130, 2020 08.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
To develop and present the methods utilized for the Dental, Oral, Medical Epidemiological (DOME) study.METHODS:
The DOME is an electronic record-based cross-sectional study, that was conducted to measure the dental, periodontal, and oral morbidities and their associations with systemic morbidities, among a nationally representative sample of young to middle-aged adults military personnel from the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). To that end, we developed a strict protocol including standardized terminology, data collection, and handling.RESULTS:
Data for the DOME study was derived simultaneously from three electronic records of the IDF (1) a central demographic database, (2) the dental patient record (DPR), and (3) the medical computerized patient record (CPR). The established DOME repository includes socio-demographic, dental and medical records of 132,354 young to middle-age military personnel from the IDF, who attended the dental clinics during the year 2015. Records of general military personnel (N > 50,000), with no recorded dental visits during the study period, served as a control group regarding all other parameters except dental. The DOME study continues and is currently collecting longitudinal data from the year 2010 until 2020. The IDF employs a standardized uniform administrative and clinical work-up and treatment protocols as well as uniform computerized codes. We describe the standardized definitions for all the parameters that were included socio-demographics, health-related habits, medical and dental attendance patterns, and general and dental health status. Multicollinearity analysis results of the sociodemographic and medical study parameters are presented.CONCLUSION:
Standardized work-up and definitions are essential to establish the centralized DOME data repository to study the extent of dental and systemic morbidities and their associations.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Personal Militar
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Humans
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Methods Inf Med
Año:
2020
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Israel